When I was in High School I drove my car to school every day and one day
some kids loosened all my lug nuts on my B. A few days later I lost a
front wheel and crashed the car into a ditch at 55mph. This was all about
two weeks after finishing the car. To make a long story short, the cops
get called when the towing company does in case I had damaged the ditch
and the owner wanted to sue me. Well the best thing that the cop could do
was to write me a ticket for having expired plates. So as I am sitting in
the cop car at 7:00am looking at my two week old baby all messed up in a
ditch this f#@!ing cop is writing me a ticket.
James Nazarian
'71 B roadster
'74 BGT bastardization with big aluminum heart :)
'63 Buick 215 cubic inch 'heart'
On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Neil Cotty wrote:
> I think I had the worst experience last night.
>
> I got pulled over for speeding in my 626. Ok I was speeding yep. No excuse,
> but suffice to say was on a dual lane freeway at the time, and they were
> pulling in queues of cars and there was cars in front of me as well. A
> cynical revenue collecting attempt in it's purest form. Said they clocked me
> doing 20kph over (100 in 80 zone) which amazed me and god knows how their
> radar can pick me out of a line of cars - but anyway.
>
> I just sold my old ISP business this week, so have been just a *little*
> snowed under moving a 1000 clients or so. Of course, when I get pulled over,
> this other female officer goes over to check my rego sticker, and lets out
> this BIG smirk..
>
> Oh Sh*t. I think I'm out of rego. 8 days..
>
> So here's the tally.
> $185 Speeding fine.
> $403 Driving whilst unregistered
> $403 Driving with no insurance (even though my insurance, both property and
> third party personal was paid, just had no time to bring the silly rego form
> into the RTA)
>
> Total: $996.00
>
> Of course, I wasn't allowed to ask ANY questions, and when I did (Isn't
> there a grace period officer? was the question), this guy immediately told
> me he was going to take my Plates off and tow my car away!! Totally
> flabbergasted I sat there for a while in shock. Then about five of minutes
> later he came back and said in a totally different attitude that I could
> move my car off the freeway, park it, then get it towed. ie "Drive it home,
> just don't let us see you do it". I sat there a further five minutes
> considering this and another different Copper came up and told me the same
> thing except in a much nicer tone, suffice to say I was looking over my
> shoulder all the way home.
>
> Now I don't know about you people out there, but what the heck happened to
> your local cop, who would say - "Look mate, do you realise your rego is
> expired?, better fix it up". Instead, I have to come up with a GRAND which
> is a 'little' difficult to stomach. Obviously thats the letter of the law,
> I'm screwed whatever, but a piece of paperwork is late and I get treated
> like a criminal. I register 4 cars here, and pay $1000's in rego, tax and
> insurance and always on time, except of course, this time. To me this is a
> total joke. Obviously I will try to not pay this $806.00 as I am an *expert*
> when it comes to cashflow, and pleading poverty, so I will make them wait
> and wait and wait to get this money, or they'll get it $20 a week. It sucks,
> thats what I think. I rarely get angry, but last night after I drove away
> from these five nice Policeman boy oh boy, I made the Tazzie Devil look
> calm. <G>
>
> Seriously considering moving to Germany. I hear the Autobahns are REAL nice.
> ;) Can you get cheap MG's there?
>
> Trying to keep my sense of humour. :)
>
> Cheers,
> Neil.
>
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